Rock Garden Plants: A Color Encyclopedia

By Baldassare Mineo

Baldassare Mineo is owner of Siskiyou Rare Plant Nursery in Medford, Oregon, one of the world's great sources of plants for rock gardens. Mineo's own photographs are supplemented with many by the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881924326
• ISBN13: 9780881924329
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 2.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.9" x 11.4"

Customer Reviews

Very Beautiful Book

Clearly a work of long effort and love, this magnificent volume shows what'you've always wanted to grow in your rock garden'...including some very rare, very astonishing plants. The pics are truly beautiful and show the plants as well as the flowers. The only thing it seems to lack is a discussion of some of the finer points of culture of some of these gems, but then again this isn't purely a book about rock garden culture. For that, look for Linc Foster's Rock Gardening or Reginald Farrer's classic The English Rock Garden.

Seeing is believing

One of the most difficult parts of selecting rock garden plants is anticipating what they will look like in one's own rock garden. The pictures and descriptions in Baldassare Mineo's book are extraordinarily accurate, interesting and authoritative. We've seen Mineo's thrilling gardens and know that he understands his subject from the scree up! This book will become a classic.